Charlie Chan’s Secret (1936)

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The series of the Charlie Chan films starring Warner Oland were probably the strongest films in the Charlie Chan series. Sidney Toler made several good films also but eventually the series would become low-budget “B” films produced by Monogram Pictures. Charlie Chan’s Secret (1936) (affiliate kiungo) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values

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Black Camel (1931)

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Black Camel (1931) is the oldest surviving Charlie Chan film (affiliate kiungo) starring Warner Oland. Ilikuwa filamu ya pili katika mfululizo wa Fox Films. kwanza, tatu, fourth and fifth films are lost although a Spanish language version of Charlie Chan Carries On (Walikuwa kumi na tatu, 1931) gani zipo. The Black Camel was released on June 21, 1931.

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Mr. Wong, Upelelezi (1938)

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This movie is the first in a series (affiliate kiungo) of six films from Monogram Pictures released between 1938 na 1940. The series was a “B” formula film offering. filamu ingekuwa imeonekana kwanza juu ya muswada mara mbili. films tano kwanza hoja Boris Karloff kama Mr. James Lee Wong, wakati katika filamu sita Keye Luka Imechezwa

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Max Linder Made Pathe’ Filamu

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Max Linder (1883-1925) built the Pathe’ Film Studio in the early 1900s. Linder’s comedy influenced Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. Linder is largely unknown today because his biggest film successes were in the 1910s. Most of his films are considered lost. Film fans today have the benefit of resources like the Internet Archive, which has a number of

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The Mad Doctor Meets the Somnambulist

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What happens is the first commercially successful art film (affiliate kiungo). The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) was released in January 1920 becoming a German and international sensation. It marked the beginning of a German film revival during the 1920s The German Expressionist Movement in German art strongly influenced this film. Expressionist paintings were known for buildings sloped at

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Scarlet Pimpernel

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While it may not be on classic film lists, I love The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) (affiliate kiungo). It is an adaptation of the novel (affiliate kiungo) kwa jina moja, written by Baroness Orczy. The film concerns an English gentleman, who risks his life to save French aristocrats from the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney married Marguerite, a French woman with

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